A U.S. regulator on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against 16 U.S. and international banks alleging they had manipulated bbaLIBOR, which is a series of interest-rate benchmarks, leading to the collapse of Puerto Rico's Doral Bank.

After 1848 the prospectors came from all over to California for gold. The lot of them were hopeful, desperate, and ambitious -- "the Forty-Niners" they were called. At a new museum exhibit at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (and in a new book), you can come face to face with them.

In his weekly review of the markets with Craig Hemke for Sprott Money News, mining entrepreneur Eric Sprott discusses rising interest rates, the falling U.S. dollar, and the increasing strength of gold and silver prices. The interview is 12 minutes long and can be heard at Sprott Money here:

Interviewed by King World News, GoldMoney founder and GATA consultant James Turk says gold's sharp increase Tuesday on a day when it was supposed to lose no matter which way the government's inflation report went suggests that the shorts are in serious trouble. Turk's interview is posted at KWN here: